Saw this with one of my oldest childhood friends.
Hadn't seen each other in a few months. Grabbed a drink afterwards and talked about the dynamic between Adonis and Damian, what we took away from it as two Black men who came up together in a hard environment, and how life in general was going.
Told each other a lot of things we had never said before and I think we came out the bar closer and stronger for it.
This is what movies are for.
"Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers."
- John Rooney, "Road to Perdition" (2002)
"My road to glory was Road To Perdition / And Act II: The Turn is just the memoirs with no omissions"
- Jay Electronica, "Road to Perdition" (2015)
Maybe Sam Mendes' best movie... ever? Idk but it sure feels like it. Hell of a final film role to go out on for Paul Newman. I can't say enough about how much I lovedβ¦
Entertaining while being entirely too smart for its own good. Spike Jonze's Pharcyde "Drop" music video by way of Mission Impossible. 2014's Predestination meets Quantum of Solace.
Every line of dialogue sounds like a Zen koan delivered like a soliloquy written by a philosophy grad thumbing through a dogeared copy of A Brief History of Time.
John David Washington is a decent if uncharismatic leading man. It doesn't feel like the film is all that particularly interested in him orβ¦
